Clasp-brake.



W. C. HEDGCOCK.

CLASP BRAKE.

APPucATxoN man Nov. w15.

W. C. HEDGCUCK.

CLASP BRAKE.

APPucATloN FILED Nov. 1,1915.

Patented M1 2,1915

WLLIAM C. HEDG-CK.

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to the, lnnlin nrang'feer bc en by th ,n arrangement that thv rvi vanter.. :Ln rho pull from the nir' qgfllnder is againqt the Figure l a pLn View rangemen. Constrniefl in .-2. my inventn: l'lg. i in n lon "tmglinal am tion through n our truck sinn f' in tlm' shown ln Fig. E11 Fig. 23 n @nfl 'rima' of the tra. nil Fig. 4 is f pm'spectlw new of the lnfllm lnver at the point me lnnnectlrm between ille :wir brake pull rofl .l ilux 'Graka :xrrangrennznh In the flrmings at 3.() in Fig dimterl at 1l :mal there iS nu tendency mit from nnflm' the wir body. By n; lw lvmlcn lxonf on hunger levers, v .'mMG-fl an Conserve space. which is mash '2l-mnnl in Sixdvlxeel :lilium-vree. am enabled to apply the )Fakes zin', nml" the horizontal axis 0f the lo pull nauw w l rake mechanism. ille Combination brawl; sind n, om' body. levers pirnted to im in lu wrtml plane of the Wheel;

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figures. lt will ha naief! tha n @lai-p brak@ r zu'rangmnent. he combina! arrangement Pmtmnplzml. @ne an A iwlmid bPmifll il C211" bOff'-, wlnch the brake shoes l2 :we appne to lewr# pvnef 1 ille truck in the vertical 1i() plane of the car wheels and a pair of which is provided for each wheel, a brake head mounted intermediate the ends of each lever, a brake beam connected to the lower ends of each lever, brake levers connected to said beams, the brake levf :s at the extreme ends of the truck being pivoted to the truck, an f air brake pull rod, levers connecting said pullrod to said brake levers, and a dead end providetlon the car body for said pull rod connecting levers, substantially as described` 3. In a brake arrangement, the combination of a truck frame and a car body, brake beams provided on each side of each wheel, brake levers connected to the beams and to each other, the brake levers at the extreme ends of the truck being fulcrumed to the truck, an air brake pull rod, an equalizer lever to which said pull rod is connected, said equalizer lever being directly connected to a brake lever, and an equalizer connected tosaid pull rod lever, one end of said equalizer, being fulcrumed to the car body, substantially as described.

4. In a brake arrangement, the combination of a car body and .a car truck svviveledA thereto, said truck including a truck frame,

brake beams provided at'each side of each fulcrumed to the car body at a point near its swiveling connection to the-truck, substantially as described.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of October, A. D. 1915.

WILLIAM C. HEDGCOCK. Witnesses:

J. F. LYNN,

CHAS. GARDNER. 

